Old Rattler
(Traditional)
Performer(s): Grandpa Jones;
and various other artists



Old Rattler was a good old dog
As blind as he could be
Ev'ry night 'bout supper time 
I believe that dog could see

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Here! Rattler!
Here! Here!
Here! Rattler! Here!
Call old Rattler from the barn
Here! Rattler! Here!

Old Rattler tree'd the other night
And I tho't he'd tree'd a 'coon
When I come to find out
He was barkin' at the moon

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Well, grandma had a yeller hen
We set her as you know
We set her on three buzzard eggs
And hatched out one old crow

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Grandpa had a muley cow
She was muley when she's born
It took a jaybird forty year
To fly from horn to horn

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Now if I had a needle and thread
As fine as I could sew
I'd sew my sweetheart to my back
And down the road I'd go

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Old Rattler was a smart old dog
Even tho' he was blind
He wouldn't hurt one single thing
Tho' he was very fine

One night I saw a big fat 'coon
Climb up in a tree
I called old Rattler right away
To get 'im down fer me

But Rattler wouldn't do it
Because he liked that 'coon
I saw them walkin' paw in paw
Later by the light of the moon

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Now old Rattler's dead and gone
Like all good dogs do
You better not act a dog yourself
Or you'll be goin' there too

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